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Although not as popular as other other viticultural books of its time, this is a handsome volume with an ornate, gilt-decorated spine, nearly two hundred illustrations by Henry Holton, and paper and typography of a quality uncommon in trade publications of the time.... While offering percise descriptions of native grapes, he recommends only a few as useful for wine making (the iona, delaware, diana, Allen's Hybrid and catawba) and rejects the rest, especially the ubiquitous concord.... Other interesting features of this book are a chapter on 'taste,' with respect to discernment of quality, and a discussion of Pasteur's then recent studies on fermentation and the stabilization of bottled wine by heat treatment (pasteurization). - James Gabler, Wine into Words, pages 181-182.
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